Yearly Archives: 2021
Milwaukee’s Danceworks Changes Collective Leadership Model Amid Protests
A recent leadership change at Danceworks has led to the longtime artistic director's resignation and a letter from a co-founder criticizing the board of...
Warner Bros. Has Dropped Pepe Le Pew From Looney Tunes
The amorous/borderline-rapey skunk was cut from Space Jam 2 and is not included in any future projects, though studio sources say that this is...
Milwaukee Repertory Theatre Will Pay Its Employees To Get Vaccinated
"We are incentivizing each one of our employees with a payment of $200 to get vaccinated," Chad Bauman said. "We believe it's incredibly important...
What It Was Like At The Movies The First Weekend New York’s Cinemas Reopened
Capacity Limits: "Not really an issue for Chaos Walking, a poorly-reviewed mess of a sci-fi adventure." Distancing: "Fortunately, AMC's ordering system handles this well,...
What’s A Conductor Good For? Let A Veteran Orchestral Player Tell You.
"A great maestro, through the sheer force of his or her spiritual presence, can inspire musicians to play not with our hands but with...
Charleston Symphony Eliminates Music Director Position
To cope with the huge income shortfall caused by the pandemic, South Carolina's largest performing arts organization will let go of conductor Ken Lam...
TV Newsman Roger Mudd, 93
" Peabody Award-winning journalist who spent a quarter-century at CBS News and NBC News and came close to becoming a No. 1 network anchorman...
Paris Biennale Is Permanently Discontinued
"The Paris Biennale, founded in 1962 and once the world's most prestigious art fair, is no more. After years of confusion, scandal and strife,...
Jair Bolsonaro Blocks Arts Funding To Brazilian States With Pandemic Lockdowns
"A national culture secretary published the decree last week making clear that proposals under the Rouanet Law, which provides funding to cultural projects on...
Norton Juster, Author Of ‘The Phantom Tollbooth’, Dead At 91
"A budding architect with a self-confessed tendency to procrastinate, Mr. Juster … stumbled into literature much as his most famous hero, Milo, stumbles into...
Disney+ Closes In On 100 Million Subscribers
The subscriber count is up from the 94.9 million accounts Disney reported last month for the quarter that ended in January. And the surge...
How Companies Are Rethinking What It Means To “Own” Something
Business leaders, and their lawyers, have a bias — an unjustified faith, really — that legal ownership matters. Surprisingly often, it doesn’t, and some...
The Democratization Of Storytelling
By now, a successfully kickstarted short is a rather common occurrence, but an Oscar-winning one is rare indeed. Crowdfunding is, of course, not the...
DeepFake Technology That Animates Images (Really Creepy)
The AI family history app MyHeritage allows users to animate photographs from the past. Run a document through the app and it will seemingly...
Settlement In Copyright Suit Against Robert Indiana Estate
The settlement agreement brings the legal wrangling over the estate of the artist known for his iconic “LOVE” series closer to an end. -...
Big Worries About The Met Museum’s Plans To Sell Art To Survive
"Critics of the new guidelines, including Hollein’s predecessor, Thomas P. Campbell, believe in the sanctity of public collections and want to maintain strict controls...
Why The Stonehenge Highway Tunnel Is Really A Good Idea
Archaeologist Timothy Darville: "Much of has been fuelled by negative publicity and misunderstandings about the processes by which archaeological concerns feed into planning...
“Genre” Is Disappearing In Pop Music
"It’s difficult to imagine a Grammy ceremony that doesn’t rely on genre as its organizing principle—I suppose that would entail the bestowing of just...
So What Will The Financiers Who Bought Second City Do With It (Or To)...
"Though private-equity firms are notorious for ruthlessly wringing efficiencies out of the properties they pick up, the investors who just bought one of Chicago's...
I Miss Theatre. I Didn’t Know I’d Miss The Audience Too
"What it has taken me a year to realize is how much I also miss the community of the audience — the strangers surrounding...
Marie Antoinette’s Private Theatre Has Been Restored
The queen had the little playhouse built as part of her pretend village at Le Petit Trianon; she and her friends attended plays and...
What People Regret On Their Deathbed
"Broadly, people seem to wish for a more meaningful life. They wished they’d been more authentic in their activities (1; 3). They wished they’d...
Jazz Drummer And Bandleader Ralph Peterson Jr., 58
"The sheer, onrushing force of Peterson's beat, paired with his alert ear and agile dynamism, made him one of the standout jazz musicians to...
Why Music Schools Like Juilliard Have To Change
Classical purists clutch their hearts in disgust at the mere suggestion of their holy shrines teaching business skills like freelancing or contemporary styles like...
Putting Together The Pieces Of A Lost Florence Price Score
The pioneering Black composer's Fantasie Nègre No. 3 in F minor was thought to be incomplete: only the first two pages were known to...
